› added 10 years ago

662

TIL that after a Brazilian jiu jitsu teacher admitted to raping and killing a baby, a prison mob came together and sexually assaulted him.

Read more opposingviews.com

via reddit.com

gmN7 TIL that Dr. Ruth was trained as a sniper by the Israeli army and she was seriously wounded in an explosion during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
nekJ9 TIL NYPD officer John Perry was turning in his retirement papers on 9/11 when the first plane struck. He asked for his badge back and ran to help. He was killed while assisting a woman in the south tower as it collapsed.
W7Ned TIL Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook wrote that the word Al-Qaeda should be translated as "the database", because it originally referred to the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen militants who were recruited and trained with CIA help to defeat the Russians
1aQBW TIL that during the occupation of Denmark in World War II, 7200 Jews, aided by local resistance fighters, escaped Nazi internment. Of the Jewish community living there, only 500 were captured, and only 51 did not survive.
7LDx TIL: In 2004, a white, African-born Omaha student was suspended for seeking his school’s “Distinguished African-American Student” award